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Genre/Form: | Biographies Genealogy History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kirk, Robert W., 1937- Pitcairn Island, the Bounty mutineers, and their descendants. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2008 (OCoLC)606517362 Online version: Kirk, Robert W., 1937- Pitcairn Island, the Bounty mutineers, and their descendants. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2008 (OCoLC)609303642 |
Named Person: | Fletcher Christian; Fletcher Christian |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Wm Kirk |
ISBN: | 9780786434718 0786434716 |
OCLC Number: | 173241103 |
Description: | viii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Herbert Ford -- Introduction. The Island as Icon -- 1. Pitcairn Discovered -- 2. Bread That Grows on Trees! -- 3. Destination Tahiti -- 4. Captain Bligh v. Mr. Christian -- 5. The Famous Captain Bligh -- 6. With the Mutineers -- 7. An Almost Perfect Hideaway -- 8. Early Visitors: 1814-1825 -- 9. Captain Beechey Learns the Bloody Details -- 10. Death of the Patriarch -- 11. Fatal Tahitian Sojourn -- 12. "The Mussolini of Pitcairn" -- 13. A Busy Port of Call: 1839-1849 -- 14. Emergency Ward -- 15. Before the Separation -- 16. The Move to Norfolk Island -- 17. Return to Pitcairn -- 18. Shipwrecks and Hysteria -- 19. Pitkern and Place Names -- 20. Conversion, Constitution -- and Murder. |
Responsibility: | Robert W. Kirk ; foreword by Herbert Ford. |
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Abstract:
The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Beginning with a background look at the circumstances surrounding the mutiny, this volume contains a history of the Pitcairn islanders from the original settlement through the opening years of 21st century.
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